great resource about Tetsukabuto here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlejP3MSfGs (presentation starts at 4’15", ends at 29’)
That is this video which gave me a start with the idea of trying things. I would love others watch it: the content is extraodinary. And so you will get that Tetsu has many many many qualities: taste, extra long term storage, post harvest ripening, high yield, carotene, etc.
I am curious about these, want to try, want to cross, etc. but I will not need all of these seeds so I can share a few: I will have 50 seeds of each, and20 Iron Cap.
So please ask me for a few if you want try or start crossing species, or whatever. can send you some of these
I don’t know if it is because they are inter-species. But what what is sure is that they have been selected for the being strong. Resistant to many things. And high yielding.
+1
If I remember correctly, these hybrids cannot act as pollen donors (male sterile). So either you put maximas and/or moschata nearby, or you do directed hand-pollination yourself.
I wonder what I will do…
“Bobby Seeds package of Iron Cup. This interspecific hybrid is self-sterile. Either a neighboring variety of C. maxima or moschata is required for pollination.”
Those hybrids(Tetsukabuto, Maukai, Iron cup, Shiatsu) should cross with themselves? Or they are self incompatible because hybrids? They should not have male sterility.
I wonder if is there any advantage to crossing those “interspecies with other interspecies” compared to “interspecies with other mochatas/maximas” plants?
Better cross with some mochata/maxima grexes?
I was planning to put a line of mochatas and maximas of on each side.
I don’t even konw why I plant these…
(joking: actually it is the Tetsukabuto video with Alex Stone that inspired me to try something)
No, I believe most of interspecific are male sterile. A quick research could confirm that. Or not. Maybe we should ask more advanced people in that topic or go back reading other threads.
Selected on strong orange, looking like Musquée de Provence. Moschata could be the mother plant? I don’t think I will buy it but if someone is interested.
Then again if some wants offsprings from crosses of the prior interspecific hybrids with either moschatas or random maximas, let me know. Crosses where random as plants were inserted in either a maxima or a moschata patch.
You know that this one is always interested. Some of your interspecific commercial seed gave me fruit; parthenocarpic or not has to wait to be assessed.
Tetsukabuto and its colleagues mostly interested me for their super extended shelf life, even in a very cold storage place (barn bay), plus largely outcompeeting all other strains in yields, except one.
To get more on that you must absolutely listen to Alex Stone extraordinary 30 minutes presentation.
The offsprings will lead me to breed a super long keeping landrace.
On the contrary I don’t know anything special regarding storage for this new one linked above, that’s why I certainly won’t go for it.
